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(N0 Modeh) E. WILEY.

PEN AND PENCIL HOLDER.

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PEN AND PENCIL HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 327,044, datedSeptember 29, 1885.

Application filed April 1, 1885. (No model.)

1'0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN WILEY, of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pen andPencil Holders; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in shafts or holders for pensand pencils; and the invention consists in a pen and pencil holderconstructed, combined, and arranged in the manner hereinafter withparticularity shown, described, and claimed.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a side view ofholder, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a cross-section in line 00 m, Fig.1; Fig. 3, a side View of core, with ferrule partly in section; Fig. 4.,an under side .view of single section of pearl; Fig. 5, an

edge view of same; Fig. 6, a cross-section through line y 3 Fig. 4.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

In the construction of my pen and pencil holder, referring to thedrawings, A represents a wooden core, cylindrical in section, andtapering from butt to point. The butt consists, essentially, of a head,a, with ashoulder, b. Formed at convenient intervals around the core areprojecting ribs B. These ribs project but slightly from the surface ofthe core that lies between them, and their diameter is proportioned tothe general taper of the core. The core being now completed, sections ofmother-of-pearl O, with their edges tapering, as in Fig. 4, are cut andproportioned so that when a number of these sectoins are placed aroundthe core A they will unitedly cover the surface of the core as with aveneering of pearl, as in Fig. 1. Before these sections are fittedaround the core, however, each of them has formed in its under sidegrooves c, to correspond with and to allow the ribs B to fit into them.Suitable cement then being applied to the core and to the sections, thecore and sections are firmly fixed together, the grooves c and ribs Bmaterially assisting in keeping them united and preventing theirdisplacement by any ordinary accident. The lower end of each section, itwill be observed, abuts against the shoulder b of the head a, and uponthis head is tightly fitted a ferrule, d, the several sections abovethis ferrule being turned down to the same diameter as is the ferrule,leaving a shoulder, e, of pearl.

By this construction, when the metal tube D of the holder is fitted tothe shaft, it will inclose not only the ferrule d, but also that part ofthe pearl-sections which is of the same diameter as the ferrule abuttingagainst the shoulder 6 formed thereon, and so tightly confine the lowerends of the sections in place, in addition to the cement and ribs beforenamed.

Another advantage arising from the ribs B is that they act as stops toprevent displacement of thepearl-sections when the tube is fitted to thebutt of the shaft.

Having now described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A holder for pens and pencils, consisting of a core tapering frombutt to point, of cylindrical section, provided with ribs B, and coveredwith tapering and recessed sections of mother-of-pearl, as and for thepurpose described.

2. A tapering pen-holder core of cylindrical section, provided with ribsB, head a, and shoulder b, combined with tapering and recessed sectionsof pearl O, with their lower ends abutting against the shoulder 12, andconstructed to be inclosed by the metal tube D of the holder, as and forthe purpose described.

EDWIN WILEY.

In presence of G. M. PLYMPTON, D. A. CARPENTER.

